Author Archives: Tamise

My review of ‘Tudor Executions: From Nobility to the Block’ by Helene Harrison

Any book about Tudor executions is bound to include Lady Jane Grey and here Jane shares a chapter with her father-in-law, John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland. Both died under the executioner’s axe for the roles they played in Jane’s short … Continue reading

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Dr Stephan Edwards – Re-examines the Wrest Park portrait in British Art Journal

Dr Stephan Edwards has had an article published in ‘The British Art Journal: Online’, where he re-examines the new evidence about the Wrest Park portrait being of Lady Jane Grey. You can read the article either at The British Art … Continue reading

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13 November 1553 – Lady Jane and Guildford Dudley were taken to the Guildhall to stand trial

The author of ‘The Chronicle of Queen Jane and of Two Years of Queen Mary, and Especially of the Rebellion of Sir Thomas Wyat’ described the procession from the Tower. ‘The xiijth daie of November were ledd out of the … Continue reading

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‘Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History’ by Tracy Borman added to the website….

‘Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History’ by Tracy Borman added to the Other Biographies section of the bibliography. Entry added to: Primary Accounts – Dress.

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My review of ‘Mary Tudor: Queen of France’ by Amy McElroy

Mary Tudor had an eventful life, even by royal standards! She was the daughter, sister and wife of kings and through her second marriage, the grandmother of Lady Jane Grey. Although overshadowed by her namesake and niece, Mary I, this … Continue reading

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